National Union of Journalists concerned over AI generated article

Ten of Swords

The NUJ has expressed their "grave concern" over an article written by AI that went out today across several publications owned by Iconic Media

The article, called "OPINION: Should refugees in Ireland go home?" had a disclaimer saying it was AI generated and later in the day the article had its title updated to "Can we trust Artificial Intelligence?"

Here is the AI generated article

https://www.waterfordlive.ie/news/national-news/1256179/opinion-should-refugees-in-ireland-go-home.html

And here is the Journal article with the NUJ's perspective

https://www.thejournal.ie/nuj-concerned-over-ai-generated-article-6127956-Jul2023/

Mrs OBumble

I totally agree that

“AI is no substitute for genuine journalism carried out by intelligent human beings paid a decent salary and enjoying proper working conditions”.

But at a minimum that raises a question about how much genuine journalism we see here.

Varik

They gave it a simple 1 line prompt and what it gave them back may as well have been the page number to the refugee definition. Then you've the lad quoted from the Journal "The article largely ignores the human dimension", it also ignored the question it was asked and was used by someone who obviously didn't know how to use it properly. Just vomiting up the Pablum.

Chatgpt is so handicapped at this stage it's not even useful for something like this. You used to be able to make it take position on something or write from the perspective of someone/side but they've added so many blocks it's pointless. Even then some of the others with less blocks will just give yes but no answers.

You've striking writers in the US using signs they state where written by ai and there's usually something wrong with it therefore justifying their job, but it only gives out based on what it's given and you've to steer it getting anything good but once you do you can crank out variants of that if needed. It stupid you've people trying to balance praising themselves with how irreplaceable they are while still demanding to be protected from something that isn't a real threat to them.

TheValeyard

Think they would have coped on with the Irish Times fake story on fake tan.

MrMusician18

NUJ is finding out the hard way that it now has competition in its market for churnalism, algorithmic viewpoints and rent-an-opinion.

If they didn't have so many activists in their ranks I might have some sympathy...